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Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the arts of smithing, joinery, carpentry, turning, bricklayery : to which is added Mechanick dyalling: shewing how to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane ...

by: Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691; Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691. Mechanick dyalling

Publication date: 1703

Topics: Do-it-yourself work, Industrial arts, Woodwork, Sundials

Publisher: London : Printed for Dan. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh, ...

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Item Size: 908.2M

Comprises the first volume of Moxon's Mechanick exercises, first published in 14 parts in 1677, with additional sections on bricklaying and sun-dials

Wing notes 3rd eds. in 1700, 1701

The treatise on sundials has special t.p.: Mechanick dyalling : teaching any man, tho' of an ordinary capacity and unlearned in the mathematicks, to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane, however scituated: only with the help of a straight ruler and a pair of compasses; and without any arithmetical calculation / by Joseph Moxon, ... -- The fourth edition. -- London : Printed for Tho. Leigh and Dan. Midwinter, ..., 1703